Lee Harwood
Author Photo (1998) by Bernard Bardinet.
Shearsman Titles
Collected Poems
Selected Poems
Not the Full Story — 6 Interviews with Lee Harwood
About the author
Lee Harwood was born in 1939 and grew up in Surrey. He has spent the majority of the past 35 years living in Brighton. In a writing career that began in the early 1960s he has published over 20 volumes of poetry and prose, as well as translations of Tristan Tzara. His work has been widely anthologised and he is regarded as one of the finest poets working in England today.
Praise for some of the collections included in his Collected Poems:
"Lee Harwood is one of Britain's best poets and best-kept secrets."
John Ashbery
"There is a clarity and wonderment in his poems which never insist on our attention but with their gentleness, offhandedness and, no matter how strange or complex the subject matter, an eerie directness, a straight unembellished telling, that makes them penetrating, moving, sometimes unforgettable." (August Kleinzahler)